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Transpire

//tɹænˈspaɪ̯ɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.). ambitransitive
  2. 2
    give off (water) through the skin wordnet
  3. 3
    To perspire. intransitive, obsolete
  4. 4
    come about, happen, or occur wordnet
  5. 5
    Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata. intransitive
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  1. 6
    come to light; become known wordnet
  2. 7
    To become known; to escape from secrecy. intransitive

    "It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer."

  3. 8
    exude water vapor wordnet
  4. 9
    To happen, take place. broadly, intransitive

    "Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired."

  5. 10
    pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.

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